Sinful Temptations (2001 Video)
5/10
About as good as you get for this sort of thing
21 April 2010
Warning: Spoilers
This is a movie you're really got to grade on a curve. The writing, direction and acting are all sub par for a regular film, but this isn't a regular film. This is a soft core skin flick, the sort made famous by late night Cinemax. You've got to judge Sinful Temptations by the astoundingly low standards of its genre and on those marks, this is a non-awful piece of entertainment for people who like this sort of thing.

Nicole Williams (Mia) is a bosomy young wife who's tired of being stuck at home and ignored by her unrelenting prick of a husband, Brad (Timothy Stempien). She decides to try her hand at modeling and impresses Claire and Blake (Marie West and Richard Moses), the owners of a local agency, enough to immediately get a photo shoot. Claire is both struck by Nicole's beauty and annoyed at her professed wholesomeness, so she makes a bet with Blake. If the modeling lifestyle leads Nicole to cheat on her husband, Claire gets Blake's half of the profits for 6 months. If Nicole resists temptation, Blake gets Claire's half.

While Claire hatches a scheme with a horny photographer (Tom Fry) to win the bet, Blake finds himself falling in love with Nicole, Brad finds himself consumed with paranoia and resentment over his wife's new life and Nicole is caught up in fantasizing about Blake and the horny photographer. Separately, though. Not both of them at the same time. It all leads to murder for some and a new life for others.

As I referenced before, this isn't even remotely close to being good when measured against legitimate cinema. But the woman are all attractive, at least one of them gets naked every 10 minutes and there's only one truly atrocious actor in the entire cast. That makes Sinful Temptations the skin flick equivalent of Lawrence of Arabia. When you rent a movie like this, all you really want is hot chicks taking their clothes off and writhing around in a sexual manner. These chicks are hot. They frequently take their clothes off and the writhing is of above average quality.

The one outstandingly terrible actor is Timothy Stempien and he is quite remarkably terrible. He couldn't convincingly play dead if you shot him in the face. Stempien speaks in a monotone, has only two expressions and watching his face change from one to the other is like listening to someone grind the gears on a stick shift. The rest of the cast look like Oscar winners compared to Stempien, except for when Richard Moses is in a sex scene. He has a few and in all of them he does this thing where he moves his head from side to side like Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles. Outside of Moses' weird coitus bob, the other performances are perfectly acceptable.

There's noting exceptional or imaginative about this skin flick, but it never leaves you staring at the screen and wondering what the heck just happened. If you're not that bright and have a moral objection to hard core porn, this is as good an alternative as you'll find.
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